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.@alfranken talks to @JeffreyToobin and @ngertner about the Trump strategy to pack our courts with donor-friendly judges, and @FedSoc’s pivotal role funded by dark money. Great episode and great breakdown. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-c…
.@FedSoc grooms candidates and funnels money to judicial campaigns, and selects Trump judges. So-called “nonprofits” like BH Fund get secret money; (@FedSoc’s Leonard Leo raised over $250 million) to install donor-friendly judges.
This ought to be transparent, but donors pay to pick the judges, campaign for them, and instruct them through “amicus” briefs, all in secret. What could possibly go wrong with secret million-dollar donors picking judges? Go get ‘em, Al!
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Missing from this story is the biggest player — the dark money network behind the scenes. nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opi…
Funding Mitch McConnell’s political operation; funding @FedSoc as it picks judges; funding @judicialnetwork as it campaigns for confirmations; & funding the flotilla of “amici” telling judges how to decide cases.
This all needs to be brought to light, & the Court is far too complicit in hiding it.
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What are the chances that if partisan #gerrymandering were a Democratic technique, that had generated counter-majority Democratic political advantage, the Republicans on the Court would have rendered this decision?
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If it really is too difficult for judges to sort out, as the Roberts Five aver, why was every lower court judge in every case quite readily able to sort it out? This looks to be another in the long chain of false facts the Roberts Five invents to justify 5-4 partisan decisions.
Add this to the list of 73 5-4 partisan decisions (through 2018) the Roberts Five have delivered for big Republican donor interests. #CapturedCourt
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